Great software solves a problem that you have — plus problems you didn’t know you had. Here’s an example: today on Twitter, a friend let me know about a broken link to one of my old posts: The broken link lives in someone else’s blog post, so I can’t update the source. It looks like …
“Why use bash when you have PowerShell?” <– words I did not expect to hear from my own mouth. Over the past few weeks I’ve begun learning PowerShell, and it’s an improvement over the UNIX (and family) shells, bash and ksh etc. PowerShell is newer. It builds on what those shells did right, and then …
We build our software in a particular world, a world of technologies that we link together. We choose a programming system (language, runtime, framework), libraries, and environment. We integrate components: databases, logging, and many different services. Perhaps we built it on Java 8 running on VMs in our datacenter, connecting to a proprietary queuing service …